Coraline (2009)

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Synopsis

Animated/Fantasy. Based on the novella by Neil Gaiman. A young girl (voice of Dakota Fanning) finds a secret door in her new home and discovers a world on the other side where everything may not be as perfect as it first seems.

Content elements

• Infrequent use of profanity and vulgar expressions
• Infrequent portrayals of mild violence – no impact, detail
• Frequent nightmarish and frightening images including transfiguration
• Infrequent peril to main characters
• Infrequent depictions of crude bodily functions

Thematic elements

• The value of family
• The discrepancy between appearance and reality
• Accepting and welcoming change
• Literary adaptation

Classification rationale

Rated PG for material that may frighten some viewers.

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